CE: Bristol Cathedral December 5th 2018 [L]

[DracoM]

CE: Bristol Cathedral December 5th 2018


Order of Service:


Introit: Eternal light (Richard Shephard) - first broadcast
Responses: Tomkins
Psalms 27, 28, 29 (Attwood, Kelway, Stanford, Stanford, Attwood)
First Lesson: Isaiah 65 v.17 – 66 v. 2
Canticles: Gloucester Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: Matthew 24: 1-14
Anthem: Rorate caeli desuper (Byrd)
Hymn: Hark, the glad sound! (Bristol)

Voluntary: Flourish and Fugue (John Cook)

Paul Walton (Assistant Organist)
Mark Lee (Master of the Choristers & Organist)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001f53

[ardcarp]

From the Cathedral School's website:

The choir consists of 28 choristers (14 boys and 14 girls), all of whom are educated at Bristol Cathedral Choir School which is the first government-funded Choir Academy in the country.

Plus some lay clerks.

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[ardcarp]

I don't know the Cathedral building at all. Like many, it has had many re-incarnations. I was especially amused by these bits from Wiki concerning its 19th century phase:

Giles Gilbert Scott was consulted in 1860 and suggested removing the screen dated 1542 to provide 'a nave of the grandest possible capacity'. The work at this time also removed some of the more vulgar medieval misericords in the choir stalls.

and


..... the west front with its twin towers, designed by John Loughborough Pearson,[27] was only completed in 1888.[28] The niches around the north porch originally held statues of St Gregory, St Ambrose, St Jerome and St Augustine, but their frivolous detail invoked letters of protest [about] their "Catholic" design.[4] When the Dean, Gilbert Elliott (1800–1891) heard of the controversy, he employed a team of workmen without the knowledge of the architect or committee to remove the statues.[4] The next edition of the Bristol Times reported that 'a more rough and open exhibition of iconoclasm has not been seen in Bristol since the days of Oliver Cromwell.' The sculptor, James Redfern, was made the scapegoat by the architect and the church, he retreated from the project, fell ill, and died later that year. As a result of the Dean's actions, the committee resigned on mass and the completion of the works was taken over by the Dean and Chapter. The Dean's drop in popularity meant that raising funds was a harder and slower process and the nave had to be officially opened before the two west towers were built.

Trollopian or what. Plus ca change....

[Pulcinella]

As a result of the Dean's actions, the committee resigned on mass and the completion of the works was taken over by the Dean and Chapter. The Dean's drop in popularity meant that raising funds was a harder and slower process and the nave had to be officially opened before the two west towers were built.[/I]

Good old Wiki!
Would that be before, during, or after the service, do you think?

[Wolsey]

As a result of the Dean's actions, the committee resigned on mass...

Yuk! The teacher in me got the better. I've now corrected it there.

[ardcarp]

...and yesterday's music from Bristol, anyone?

[fsharpminor]

"Giles Gilbert Scott was consulted in 1860" - clever stuff, consulting 20 years before his birth. It was his grandfather, George Gilbert. And just to complete the pedantry, the west towers were designed (like the nave) by George Edmund Street and completed by Pearson . . .

[ardcarp]

..well, that's Wiki for you.